Professor Martyn Cobourne

Academic Head of Orthodontics
Faculty of Dental, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences

Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology
King’s College London, United Kingdom

Martyn Cobourne is Professor and Academic Head of Orthodontics in the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences at King’s College London. He graduated in Dentistry from King’s College London in 1990 and undertook specialty training in orthodontics at King’s College Hospital from 1994-1997. From 1998-2002, he was a Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellow at Guy’s Dental Hospital and completed a PhD in developmental biology. He was appointed as a Senior Lecturer and Hon Consultant in Orthodontics at King’s College London in 2004 and promoted to Professor of Orthodontics in 2011. He maintains a laboratory research group investigating molecular signaling pathways during early development of the head and face and has also carried out a number of randomised clinical trials investigating efficiency of orthodontic treatment interventions. He has published >200 original articles and is the author of four textbooks, the Handbook of Orthodontics (soon to be published in a third edition), Clinical Cases in Orthodontics, Orthodontic Management of the Developing Dentition and Cleft Lip and Palate. He was a Trustee and Director of Research at the British Orthodontic Society (BOS) (2012-16) and was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Orthodontics from 2012-2022.

Martyn has presented a number of prestigious lectures including the Charles Tomes Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2015) and BOS Northcroft Memorial Lecture (2018) and Ballard Lecture (2020). His research has won the BOS Chapman Prize five times (between 2014-23) and in 2019, he won the BF and Helen E Dewel Award for the most outstanding clinical research article published in the AJODO. In 2017, he became a full member of the USA Angle Society (North Atlantic Division) and is an elected member of the Board of Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, serving as Vice-Dean from 2020-22.

Foundation Dinner Speaker

Tim Jarvis AM

Tim Jarvis MSc, MEnvLaw is an environmental scientist, adventurer, author, public speaker and film maker with more than 30 years’ experience working in the sustainability field. He is committed to finding pragmatic solutions to major environmental issues related to climate change and biodiversity loss and uses his public speaking, films and books to progress thinking in these areas. He strongly advocates applying outcome-focused, systems-thinking approaches learnt from his successful expedition career to the management of complex issues related to the environment and applies lessons learnt to talk to corporate organisations and educators about purposeful leadership, problem solving, teamwork, change management, goal setting and sustainability.

Awards: Yale World Fellow 2009 for sustainability leadership; Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 2010 for services to environment, community and exploration; Australian Geographic Adventurer of the Year 2013 & Conservationist of the Year 2016 (the only person to have received both awards); Sydney Institute of Marine Science Emerald award for services to the environment; Royal Institute of Navigation’s Certificate of Achievement, Leader of the Shackleton Epic Expedition; Bragg Fellow of the Royal Institution of Australia 2017; Bettison James award 2016 for documentary film-making (for the 25Zero project that highlights climate change via equatorial glacier melt); completion of Leading Sustainability: High Impact Leadership course, Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership 2023; Australian of the Year 2024 for South Australia. Honorary Professor of Leadership Practice, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University 2023.

Current Roles: Adviser to the Pew Foundation on marine conservation issues (helped secure the 475,000km2 MacQuarie Island Marine Sanctuary declared by Minister Plibersek in July 2023; working to secure Sanctuary status for Heard and McDonald Islands in 2024); Marine advisor to Patagonia Outdoor Co; Vitality Ambassador for AIA Health Insurance (highlighting co-benefits of a healthy environment for individuals mental and physical wellbeing); Environment Ambassador for BGIS global facility manager; Biodiversity legislation Champion for the Government of South Australia (tasked with helping establish a Biodiversity Act, SA in 2024). Former roles: Global sustainability role, Arup, Sustainability specialist for AusAID, the World Bank, the Murray Darling Basin Commission and Dept of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.

Honorary Roles: Vice-President, Fauna & Flora; Global Ambassador and Governor, WWF; Ambassador to Koala Life and Board Director of the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife. Head of the adventure advisory panel of the Australian Geographic Society and member of the Society’s advisory board.

Current Projects: Founder and presenter Thin Ice VR, a ground-breaking VR film showing climate change in Antarctica (winner best VR film at Cannes and LA film festivals 2022); Founder of the Forktree Project that, through rewilding a degraded former Australian pastoral property, provides insights on how to combat the twin threats of climate change and biodiversity loss by delivering experiential sustainability education, trialling and showcasing innovative land and water management practices and providing guidance to organisations, landowners and individuals to enable them to make a positive contribution to combatting these issues.

Expeditions/films: Tim has undertaken multiple unsupported expeditions to the world’s remotes regions and has a long history of working with sponsors and the media. Highlights include expeditions to the South Pole, the high Arctic, across Australia’s largest desert, the Great Victoria, and retracing the 1913 polar journey of Sir Douglas Mawson using only the same gear, equipment and starvation rations as Mawson. The documentary Mawson Life and Death in Antarctica was flagship of the Film Australia ‘Making History’ series and fronted Channel 4’s highly acclaimed ‘Edge of Endurance’ series in 2007. Expedition patrons were Australian Prime Minister the Hon John Howard and Sir Ernest Shackleton’s grand-daughter the Hon. Alexandra Shackleton.

In 2013, Tim led the first authentic retracing of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s “double” - sailing a replica James Caird boat 1500km across the Southern Ocean from Antarctica to South Georgia and climbing over South Georgia’s mountainous interior using the same equipment as Shackleton. It is the first time that any team has been able to authentically recreate what is regarded by many as the world’s greatest survival journey. A highly successful Discovery Channel/PBS documentary film outlining the story and leadership lessons associated with Shackleton’s incredible journey of survival was made about the expedition – Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival, 2023.

Books: The Unforgiving Minute (Random House); Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica (MUP), (officially endorsed by the United Nations Environment Programme); Shackleton’s Epic/Chasing Shackleton (Harper Collins); contributing author to academic course book The Frozen Planet (Open University, UK) that accompanied the BBC TV series of the same name.

Dr Oyku Dalci

Graduated dentistry in 2000 and obtained her orthodontic training and PhD degrees from Ankara University, Turkey in 2007. She then worked as an assistant lecturer at Near East University in North Cyprus.

She moved to Australia in 2009 where she began working as a Lecturer at the University of Sydney.

Currently she is a Senior Lecturer and the Orthodontic DClinDent Course Coordinator and also works part time in private practice. Her research interests include Class III Orthopaedic Treatment, Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, improving delivery of orthodontic treatment.

Dr M. Ali Darendeliler

BDS, PhD, Dip. Orth., Certif. Orth., Priv. Doc., MRACDS (Ortho), FICD.

Dr Darendeliler is Professor and Chair of Orthodontic, Discipline of Orthodontics, at the University of Sydney and Head of Department, Orthodontics, Sydney Dental Hospital, Sydney South West Area Health Service.

He received his dentistry training from the University of Istanbul and his PhD from the University of Gazi, in Turkey and his first specialist training in orthodontics from the University of Geneva, Switzerland and his second specialist training from the High Education Council, Turkey.

During the course of his career he has undertaken duties as a clinical instructor, research and postgraduate coordinator (Maître d’Assistant et de Recherche) at the University of Geneva, Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Research Professor at the University of Southern California.

Dr Darendeliler has been recognized for his efforts with multiple prizes including the “Sheldon Friel Award , the highest recognition from the European Orthodontic Society, the “Begg Award”, the highest research award  from the Australian Society of Orthodontists, and the  Huston award for best research from the European Orthodontic Society.

His research interests include orthodontic tooth movement, root resorption, obstructive sleep apnoea, temporary anchorage devices, sequential aligners, self-ligating brackets, orthopaedic treatment modalities, accelerated tooth movement, magnetic fields and forces and dentofacial orthopedics. He lectured in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

In addition to his research and teaching commitments he also maintains a private specialist orthodontic practice.

Dr Jenny Doan

Jenny graduated with a Bachelor of Dentistry with Honours from the University of Sydney, where she was the recipient of the ADRF Dental Student Research Grant and also awarded the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons Prize in 2014. Following her studies, she practiced as a dental officer for 6 years, gaining a wide range of experience whilst liaising with specialist departments at Sydney Dental Hospital. After taking a sabbatical year to travel the world extensively, Jenny returned home to pursue further specialty training, obtaining her Doctor of Clinical Dentistry (Orthodontics) from the University of Sydney in 2023. Jenny’s research was awarded the Australian Society of Orthodontics Elsdon Storey Research Award in 2024.

Associate Professor Paolo M. Cattaneo

Paolo M. Cattaneo is an Associate Professor of Research at the Melbourne Dental School, the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is an Honorary Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria - Australia, and is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. His research interests focus on dental biomechanics, 3D imaging in orthodontics, and analysis of dento-alveolar structures and their interaction with external mechanical stimuli studied using in-vitro, in-vivo, and in-silico models. At present, he is actively involved in projects dealing with clinical outcome analysis in 3D. He has authored over 100 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and book chapters.

Paolo M. Cattaneo received his MSc. in Bio-Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, and his PhD. in Dentistry from Aarhus University in 2003, Denmark, under the supervision of Prof. Birte Melsen.

From 2010 to 2020, he served as an Associate Professor at the Section of Orthodontics, Department of Dentistry, Aarhus University.

In 2018, he successfully completed The Leadership Development Programme for Head of Departments at the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dr Mithran Goonewardene

Mithran Goonewardene completed Dental School at The University of Western Australia in 1981 and attended the Forsyth Dental Center/Harvard School of Dental Medicine in Boston, USA from 1984-1987 where he completed his Certificate in Orthodontics and Master of Medical Science degree. He took up a teaching position in orthodontics at The University of Western Australia in 1987 and  has been Head of Orthodontics and Graduate Program Director at The University of Western Australia since 1989. Dr Goonewardene is a full member of The Edward Angle Society of Orthodontists and is Certified by the Australian Orthodontic Board. He visits Sri Lanka regularly as a visiting Consultant in Orthodontics in the Dental Institute, Colombo and participates in part-time private practice in Perth.

Dr Jared Marks

Dr Jared Marks graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with his Bachelor of Dental Science. Before pursuing dentistry, he earned a Bachelor of Commerce-Accounting from Macquarie University in Sydney.  He is currently study for his postgraduate degree in orthodontics the University of Queensland. 

Before beginning his orthodontic studies, Jared gained valuable experience in both the public and private sector. In South Africa, he worked at a regional hospital, providing dental care to some of the countries most impoverished communities.  After relocating to Australia, he joined a general practice in Sydney, where he had the opportunity to work in a modern, well-equiped facility. 

In his spare time, Jared enjoys running and has completed numerous ultra-marathons.

Dr Raoul Mascarenhas

Dr Raoul Mascarenhas graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery. He then spent several years practicing in regional New South Wales, during this time he practiced in both the private and public sectors, and was also involved in clinical teaching at Charles Sturt University.

In 2020 Raoul relocated to Melbourne to complete his Doctor of Clinical Dentistry in Orthodontics at the University of Melbourne. Inspired by his time at The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne during his orthodontic education, Raoul went on to spend time at the Cleft Lip and Palate Clinic at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto to further his understanding of managing patients with these conditions. Raoul currently works in private practice in Wagga Wagga, and also consults at the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne. 

Dr Amanda Phoon Nguyen

BDSc (UniMelb), MRACDS (GDP), DClinDent (Oral Med) (UWA), MRACDS (OralMed), Cert ADL, FOMAA, FPFA, FICD, FADI, MAICD, GCHL, MICDA, FDSM

Before undertaking Oral Medicine specialist training, Amanda graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Dental Science, served in the Royal Australian Navy as a Dental officer and worked in both public and private practice as a dentist in Western Australia. Now as an Oral Medicine Specialist, she works in private and public practice. Her public appointments include Consultant at the Perth Children’s Hospital, and Senior Lecturer and Unit Coordinator for Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Pharmacology at Curtin University. 

Amanda has multiple roles with the Oral Medicine Academy of Australasia, the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and the Australasian Sleep Association Dental Sleep Medicine Council, amongst others. She is on the Board of Directors for 3 not-for-profit charities. 

For her services to dentistry, she has been awarded several honorary fellowships and awards, including the Australian Dental Association Valuable Service Award and the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons College Service Award. 

Dr Kamel Saeed

Kamel was awarded a bachelor degree in Dental Science with honours in 2007 in Egypt and practiced Orthodontics in public and private sectors from 2008 till 2015 in Egypt. He finished his orthodontic training in Egypt in 2016 then moved to Australia in the same year after passing the Australian Dental Council exams.

In 2020, he moved to Western Australia to continue studying and research in the field of orthodontics. His research interests focus on mini-screws and orthodontic/orthognathic surgery.

He was awarded the Heagney-Cook Award for best research in Western Australia Orthodontic department, Elsdon-Storey award for best Orthodontic research in Australia in 2023 and the Australian Orthodontic Board award for best clinical case for 2023.

Kamel holds a position as a lecturer in Orthodontics in the University of Melbourne and practice in private across different locations in Melbourne. He also serves as a reviewer for the Australasian Orthodontic Journal.

Associate Professor Paul Schneider

Paul Schneider received his dental education at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1970 and was in general dental practice until studying for a Masters degree in Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Minnesota from 1977-79. He  was Assistant Professor in Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Texas in San Antonio for 2 years before moving to New Orleans for the Louisiana State University Orthodontic Program. He was registered as a specialist orthodontist in Australia in 1983, and since then has been in private practice and teaching at various universities around the world, mostly the University of Melbourne Dental School where he has been Associate Professor since 2011 and was Convenor of Postgraduate Orthodontics from 2011 to 2022.

In that time, 42 students have obtained their DCD degrees. Many studies have been published in top journals. Successful research collaborations have been initiated with universities in USA, Italy, and Japan.

Dr Rohan Sully

After completing a Bachelor of Applied Science (Medical Science) at QUT in 2008, Dr Rohan Sully pursued a Graduate Diploma in Dentistry at Griffith University in 2013. Dr Sully served as a Dental Officer (Rank of Flight Lieutenant)  in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) from 2011 to 2023, gaining invaluable experience before transitioning to private practice as a general dentist in Launceston, Tasmania, from 2018 to 2022. Recently, he completed a Doctorate in Clinical Dentistry (Orthodontics) at the University of Western Australia in 2024 and will return to Tasmania in 2025 as a specialist orthodontist.